The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-27

8
setting out on sketching tour IN southern Calf
fornia, and looks forward to ten fifteen twenty
five or thirty miles day across the open coun-
try with about as much nonchalance as the
average city dame to catching horse-car on the
next block. She was s'tomboys when a girl,
she says, and still believes in the fullest and
freest out-of-door exercise and development for
either sex.
The death of Mrs Mary Mann. Horace Mann's
widow, brings to my mind the March snowdrops
with which always associated her. had met
her three or four times only within the last de-
cade. at her home at Jamaica Plain, Mass, and |
on each occasion she wore at her belt bunch of /
the white spring flowers. pleasant relief to her
sober black gown. and curiously harmonious |
with her snowy hair and brisk. cheerful face. |
When rang their door-bel first, Mr.. B. Pick |
man Mann, as he wrote his name them be- /
lieve his reformed signature is Benjamin r |
Mann now-was the only one of Mrs. Mann's /
sons left at home. He has become a professor in |
the Smithsonian Institution since. but remember |
him as a shy, awkward studious young man who |
carried on animated discussions with his mother |
to the lowest rate at which he could tutor q |
young woman who had applied to him for lessons |
in Greek. without calling down on his head the |
wrath of Harvard coaches for cutting under |
rates. Them lived in Cambridge in those
days, and the "Annex" was yet in embryo Mrs.
Mann was one of three sisters, each of whom has
left her mark upon her generation. Sophia Pea
body was Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife, Elizabeth
Peabody, now eighty years OF age, has been one
of the foremost women OF her time in every in
telecsual and rhilanthropic movement, and
Mary Peabody, who has outived her husband,
Horace Mann, twenty-seven years, was actively
interested in all educational projects and herself
writer of no mean ability. Her biography OF
her husband was pronounced by E. P. Whipple
one of the best works of its sort ever published
The public has been shuddering of late over
the miseries Of child-labor in New York Child
wretchedness in the city is real enough and hor
rbe enough. but cannot see why there should
be any pretense Of newness in any revelation on
the subject 1t is impossible to walk the streets
with ones eyes open and not see it. Yesterday
I picked up little tot under seven. think,
that had slipped on an icy curb The child
looked at me with a face of white patience that
provoked me into exclaiming: Cry, Why don't
you2 You know you want TO-" "Got no time"
said this wee bit girl, and she showed me some
| spools of coarse thread gathered up in her arms.
"Mam'll 'av no end O buttons fur me ter sew on
fore git back" and she trudeed away. leaving
me on the crossing gazing after this small
| specimen Of the business woman.
| Lent is upon us, and it is high time that some
| such compulsory check was put upon the labors
of the WORKOUT drudges Of society. The women
that one meets on the promenades by day or
sees in the theaters at night look utterly tagged
| /
many premaeurely old women crossed my
field of vision in a half hour on Fifth avenue this
morning. White hairs were beginning to show
| before their owners had crossed the line of the
| thirties and eyes. with the morning sunshine
| full them looked as if they had hardly en-
joyed a sound nights sleep for months.
| Lent doesn't necessarily mean rest. however.
| The outof-town excursions, 'skips" is the last
term coined for them, I believe, have been
| planned for weeks back, and good share of that
| section of New York which places the highest
| esteem upon itself is off for Florida, for Old
| Point Comfort. for Lakewood or Bermuda. Tux
edo will be filled up every Sunday from now on.
Do you know the milners are getting round
the high bonnet question without owning them
selves heaten2 On the newest shapes the trim
ming, instead of starting directly from the brm
about the face and and ping itself up thence in
sky -scraping towers, is placed much further
back. directly over the summit of the crown. In
this undefended position bows can hardly be EN-
| ployed, and the ribbons. laces feathers used
are thrown together to produce nearly pos
sible the same general effect as before. but with
q very sensible diminution of height
J It is good many years since the rose tinti
have been used as prominently as they will b.
this coming spring the hats and bonnets O.
, | femninity. The four leading shades-Bencale
| ribes. fiexine and Charles the euphoniou
; titles with which the milliners have dubbed
, | them-are employed the pattern bonns IS il
combination. arranged more or less as in nature
with the darker tints withdrawn in the back
> ground and the lighter ones grouped about them
favorite material for the lenten walking
costume is very dark moss green ladies' clotl
worn with short visite of dark green velvet
r About the only garniture admitted is heav,
> Russian applique in fiat silk cord, woven In col
ors of dark green and gold, with fecks of cardi
nal showing here and there, which may be use
) sparingy the panels of the skirt.
At the last dances given before Lent ney
species of dancing slipper made its debus in Van
ity Fair, twinklng on scores of feet This ney
! chaussure is made of kid Of the same color an
quality as the giants de suede of the past two o
: three seasons. 1t has pointed toe, like III
Louis XIV Shoes and it comes high on the insteI
with flap and buckle. .
The latest wrinkle for the thigh tea uniferr
r is to wear the gay apron, embroidered in Roma
. colors. sleeveless zouave jacket of white car
vas cloth, reaching just to the waist behind, an
cut away without mercy to show the house gov
in front.
Q Fifth Avenue Fashions.
New York Mail aud Express.
] Old fashioned wide gold band bracelets ar
3 coming rapidly into fashion again
: Black and white checked stockings are show
| among newly ilnpnrted French hose